According to OxfordDictionaries.com on April 25, 2011, there exists in the English language… | |||||||
Total Words: | 171,476 | ||||||
Nouns: | 85738 | ||||||
Adjectives: | 42869 | ||||||
Suppose the Sentence "'noun' is 'adjective'" | |||||||
Then for each noun, there are 42869 possible sentences | |||||||
Given this, there are 85,738 x 42,869 possible sentences of this form, giving some | |||||||
leeway for creative embellishments, and the fact that we aren't counting verbs | |||||||
or modifiers or articles etc etc. | |||||||
This amounts to… | |||||||
3675502322 | |||||||
or… | |||||||
3.676E+09 | |||||||
About 3.6 billion sentences of this form | |||||||
Now compare the number of sentences which we use to describe the world | |||||||
This, I believe, gives a strong reason to believe that …. | |||||||
1) Our perceptions are similar | |||||||
2) Our world is structured by us | |||||||
Which implies, in a metaphorical sense, that empiricists and rationalists are both wrong. | |||||||
THE END! | lulz | ||||||
Monday, April 25, 2011
A quick and unconsidered take on foundationalism
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